Said Ahmed, a sophomore at the MATCH School in Boston, displays his self-powered aircraft at the SEED Academy final presentation on May 8. Ninth-graders studied mechanical engineering and built catapults while the 10th-graders worked in aeronautics and astronautics. Photo / MARK MORELLI
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on May 14, 2003.
MIT spinout Electrified Thermal Solutions has developed an electrically conductive firebrick that stores heat at high enough temperatures to power industrial processes.